American Politics
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Letters
Identitarians Theodore Dalrymple (“Identity as Ideology,” February) is certainly correct to point to the yearning for transcendence…
Coronavirus Diary: New York, March 30
Monday. I check my phone when I wake up. There’s a text from my wife’s cousin, a…
Coronavirus Diary: New York, March 26
Thursday. Brilliant sunshine and cold, crisp air. I take Lucy for her walk. We linger in a…
Music in the Time of the Virus
I grew up in East Berlin, so I’m familiar with the feeling of being walled in and…
Studying the Western Tradition in Wyoming
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Glenn…
Always the Era of the Saints
There’s a natural human tendency to attach magic powers to slogans, which then replace serious thought and…
The Religion of Identity Politics
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, David Azerrad…
Emma Unframed
Some say that Emma is the least likeable of Jane Austen’s heroines. Austen herself admitted as much,…
Marriage of Genius
The Dolphin Letters, 1970–1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circleby elizabeth hardwick and robert lowell edited…
Prurient History
The Nuns of Sant’Ambrogioby hubert wolf vintage, 496 pages, $17 Sex sells, all the more if one…
Replace the Elite
The New Class War:Saving Democracy from the Managerial Eliteby michael lindportfolio, 224 pages, $25 Michael Lind’s The…
For and Against Integralism
Modernity does not just refer to the time in which we happen to live, the era that…
Taking Power in the Academy
In September 2017, I published a peer-reviewed paper titled “The Case for Colonialism” in Third World Quarterly.…
Venice Afloat
An observer of a Spenglerian bent might just write Venice off, taking the floods that afflict the…
Don’t Sanitize Abortion
I would like to suggest a seventh rule to add to Mary Eberstadt’s “Six Rules for Pro-Life…